Another (Expected) Deadly Heat Wave Hits Europe, With Some Beginning to Doubt the Green Left's Dogmatic Opposition to Air Conditioning

Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.

How will they reverse their decades-old determination to let the elderly die in heat waves?

As the BBC shows us: Simple! They'll now say that air conditioning is a sad but necessary response to global warming!

Air conditioning creates political divide after France records hottest day
With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con.
This week debate about la clim (climatisation) has once again burst out, with Marine Le Pen on the populist right urging a mass subsidised roll-out and traditionally hostile Greens conceding that some air-conditioning may now be inevitable.
Currently the country has a low take-up, with only 25% of households equipped with an air-con unit. In Spain and Italy the figure is 50%, and in the US and Japan 90%.
French hospitals and schools are also only rarely equipped. Thousands of schools have had to shut this week, and medical and nursing staff complain of conditions fast becoming intolerable.
But with temperatures nudging 40C - Tuesday was France's hottest day on record - there has been a rush to buy portable air-conditioning appliances, just to let children enjoy a few hours in class, or for suffocating apartment-dwellers to make it through the night.
And more and more, it seems, long-standing opponents of air-conditioning - mainly on the environmentalist left - recognise that it is bound to be part of the country's response to global warming.
This week the head of the Ecologists party Marine Tondelier broke something of a taboo when she said that air-conditioning would be needed in schools and hospitals.
"There are places where we just can't do without it now," she said.
Her break with what she called "anti-clim dogma" is significant because until now the Green movement in France has regarded air-conditioning as the worst of solutions to climate change.

Germany also doesn't have "air con" in hospitals, including in cardiac care units, where you'd think a hospital would want patients to be as stress-free as possible.

In fact, in Germany, they're telling family members of heart attack victims to bring in their own ice-packs for patients recovering from a coronary.

Frenchies are "storming" stores to buy the last few air conditioning units in the country.

Shoppers desperate to escape Europe's brutal heat wave stormed a French store for air conditioners and fans, shoving and scrambling for the last cooling units.
The chaotic scenes unfolded this week at a store in Chambray-les-Tours, where dozens of people waited outside before rushing through the doors as the security shutter rolled open, according to The Sun.
Footage on social media shows shoppers elbowing their way through the crowd and clambering over one another to snatch portable air conditioners and fans from the shelves.

Within seconds, the display had been stripped nearly bare.
The buying frenzy comes as much of Western Europe swelters through a record-breaking heat wave that has pushed temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of France, Spain, and neighboring countries.
The extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll.
French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.
Among the most heartbreaking cases was the death of a 3-year-old boy who became trapped inside a family car in Saint-Gratien, outside Paris, on Wednesday, authorities said.
The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.
He was discovered about 45 minutes later but could not be revived.

They're limiting sales of alcohol to try to reduce the rates of heat-related hospitalizations:

"We are reaching a saturation point in hospital facilities," Paris police chief Patrice Faure said Thursday.

This is pure European neofeudalism: The EU commission wants to show that its doing its part to reduce "global warming" by turning off AC in part of the building.

Specifically, the eight lower floors where the plebes work.

The top seven floors where the elites work will have full AC:

Pieter Cleppe
@pietercleppe
The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:
"It's like feudalism," a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on. A second official agreed it was a "disgrace."

The European Commission's headquarters was forced to shut down its air-conditioning system on Friday due to the heat wave.
Staff working at the Berlaymont building received a text at midday, reading: "BERL -- URGENT -- Due to extreme weather conditions, forced shut down of air cooling system from floor 1 to 7 for the rest of the day."
The 13-story building is home to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, her 26 commissioners and about 3,000 staff. Von der Leyen works on the 13th floor, and most of her commissioners' offices are housed on floors eight or above.

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1 OH NO!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:31 PM (N1tpc)

2 ....anyway

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

3 The people (of Europe) have voted, and now they must be punished with their choice.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

4 I guess I should nood... but it's so hot, I don't wanna.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

5 Summer arrives... unexpectedly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

6 Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.
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Maybe there's hope for Europe. I blame it on the World Cup being in America.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

7 So the schools in France are not out yet?

Posted by: Alice Cooper at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (nvKZ7)

8 I bet Trump would knock a point, point and a half off those 15 percent tariffs for you if you asked.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

9 The labour government spokescreeps have literally come out and said that air conditioning is bad, because if people were comfortable and not dying of heat stroke, they would not buy into the global warming scam. That, plus several green party members made the point that without AC, many more people will die, and people dying is the prime goal of their party.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (0U5gm)

10 The left doesn't care if old people die.

They only care if they can use it to attack the right.

Otherwise, they're happy to decrease the strain on their evil socialist healthcare systems. (See: Canada and ease of getting MAID vs. ease of getting a dr's appt.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (N1tpc)

11 I've been arguing with Grok this afternoon about the drone/airliner situation. I'm pretty sure we are going to see an airliner on approach in the NE taken down in the next couple days.

Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (XGbvx)

12 Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.

Regrettably, this would require an electrical system which produced enough power for the poors and that is tantamount to American witchcraft so you'll all have to continue dying. -- European betters

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

13 The labour government spokescreeps have literally come out and said that air conditioning is bad, because if people were comfortable and not dying of heat stroke, they would not buy into the global warming scam. That, plus several green party members made the point that without AC, many more people will die, and people dying is the prime goal of their party.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:35 PM (0U5gm)

I bet their offices are air conditioned.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

14 It's Europe. Probably more the smell than the heat.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (wCTP0)

15 Make no mistake, had Kamala won, she'd be banning AC in the US as well.

Saw a photo of some Euro who'd run a vent pipe from his EV into his house.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (3cUTc)

16 I want Ursula's elevator to stop and get stuck on the 7th floor, the doors open 2 inches and can't close or open any further, and have to sit in that humid, stank air for 8-12 hours as engineers struggle and fail to pry the doors open further or fix the elevator. Better yet, have 5-6 "Asian" men in the elevator with her, with their personal hygiene habits as well.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (KFbdf)

17 Maybe instead of department stores, the euros should 'storm' the EU Commission HQ and see if that stupid cvnt can fly.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (R+iUD)

18 But, but. Europeans are some much more sophisticated than us ugly Americans!

Posted by: Danger Hair Karen at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (IYeV+)

19 It's always such a tragedy when people suffer for their own stupidity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (edUvp)

20 They always hate to admit we're right about anything. Always, always.

I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

21 It is not too far to go to say that AC changed America and opened up areas of the country to development and expansion. Not a luxury for many many of us but a necessity. Yay Mr Carrier!!

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (sgO4s)

22 Specifically, the eight lower floors where the plebes work.

The top seven floors where the elites work will have full AC:
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Come on Ace, don't be anti science. Everyone knows heat rises so that's were the nice A/C needs to go....those top floors.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (G0vdT)

23 The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

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That is a pretty clever child lock system. Killing children in the name of a the climate cult.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (0U5gm)

24 How will they reverse their decades-old determination to let the elderly die in heat waves?
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Why by putting an age restriction on A/C.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)

25 No AC? Poor Euros. They've become accustomed to it, per many YT vids. Maybe time for them to go home after the WC and make some changes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

26 Europe is a dog turd wrapped in a brow paper bag inside an empty 40 oz can of Olde English 800.

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (K5H/e)

27 I find in incredible that hospitals don't have air conditioning. What a disgrace!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Yl2Ob)

28 >>> 23 The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

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That is a pretty clever child lock system. Killing children in the name of a the climate cult.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (0U5gm)

No one could break a fcking window to get the kid out?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (R+iUD)

29 "The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

He was discovered about 45 minutes later but could not be revived."

You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (N1tpc)

30 Wouldn't be a shame if the engineers accidentally reversed which floors did and didn't have A/C and then either went on strike or took their monthly 4=week holiday?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (KFbdf)

31 I've been arguing with Grok this afternoon about the drone/airliner situation. I'm pretty sure we are going to see an airliner on approach in the NE taken down in the next couple days.
Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (XGbvx)

Airports have plenty of detectors for unknown signals and aircraft already. You might do better blasting the gates than trying to hit an aircraft in flight, even landing.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (uhVAy)

32 >>It is not too far to go to say that AC changed America and opened up areas of the country to development and expansion. Not a luxury for many many of us but a necessity.

When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd)

33 You call it "deaths from a heatwave*," I call it "improved solvency for our free health care."

/s/ European Bureaucrat

* Or cold snap, I don't care--it's all old and sick people dying either way.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (3cUTc)

34 They always hate to admit we're right about anything. Always, always.

I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.
Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)
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Well, from the rhetoric I've heard over and over from the left, they don't want to "encourage" the idea that we were "right about something".

Because then, you see, we'll get the idea that we're "right" about Nazism, and you got your next Third Reich situation.

Everything is about the short-circuits in their brains.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Fi81e)

35 Every time an old white person dies an air-conditioned Eurocrat in Brussels gets a thrill up its leg. It really is just ritualistic human sacrifice.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (V362x)

36 I think one of the reasons for this is that heat waves kill off primarily the old and infirm, and the governments want to cull their pensioners, who also utilize the most health care services generally. Get rid of those useless eaters.

Posted by: They really do want you to die at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (TbWk/)

37 French Minister of Ecology aggressively makes fun of people advocating for air conditioning by observing air conditioning doesn't fix climate change.

http://tiny.cc/vbu5101

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (mkw2N)

38 oh my god! Temperatures above 85 degrees!

My long range forecast for the next 14 days: mostly sunny with highs in the upper 90s every day.

Euros call that global warming. We just call it summer in Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (edUvp)

39 Europe never really got rid of feudalism, did they? There's still a small, indolent elite busily employed making everyone below them miserable.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (CwhoI)

40 No one could break a fcking window to get the kid out?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Only mohammedans are allowed to carry weapons, and they aren't going to help.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (0U5gm)

41 >>>They'll now say that air conditioning is a sad but necessary response to global warming!

The USA has Global-Warmed Europe into submission.

USA! USA! USA!

Posted by: No Name Today at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (8mulE)

42 I like seeing all the memes that start with:

"I'm proud to be an American...where at least I have AC!".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (KKMoa)

43 Of a piece with Germany decommissioning all its nuclear plants, right before the UKR war started.

Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (RCjYY)

44 When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd)
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And a swamp cooler was a pretty good substitute.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

45 I hope the Europeans here for the WC and who are enthusiastic about America enjoy the air conditioning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Yl2Ob)

46 >>Europe is a dog turd wrapped in a brow paper bag inside an empty 40 oz can of Olde English 800.

You forgot the Late Stage Syphilis.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (/ytnd)

47 In France they're running out of cooled spaces to store the recently deceased bodies...

Because France only lets you have air conditioning once you're dead.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (N1tpc)

48 Wow, I didn't imagine even in Europe that hospitals didn't have A/C.

Been a while but last time I was in a Costco they had a fan that got crazy cold. And do these europeans not know how to watch youtube and create a temporary cooler for the hottest days.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)

49 Van der Link and her SS are the above floors the untermenchen are not allowed. No clues here.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (LHPAg)

50 I think they call this summer....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (kgetQ)

51 "I'm proud to be an American...where at least I have AC!".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (KKMoa)
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And I won't forget the men who died to save that right for me.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

52 My long range forecast for the next 14 days: mostly sunny with highs in the upper 90s every day.

Euros call that global warming. We just call it summer in Texas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (edUvp)
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We're actually supposed to hit 102 for a couple days at the end of the week. Not unheard of around here, but it's early in the summer for that.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (afFes)

53 And if my parents had been in a hospital with temperatures over 100 degrees after heart surgery, they would have died. And had they done so, I could see wearing a vest like the one in the picture. But the little lumps wouldn't have been ice packs.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (KFbdf)

54 I find in incredible that hospitals don't have air conditioning. What a disgrace!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Yl2Ob)

I had just moved into my first place with airconditioning in the 1990s when Chicago when a heatwave and power outage killed about 700 people. Of course, the aircon didn't work.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)

55 Come on Ace, don't be anti science. Everyone knows heat rises so that's were the nice A/C needs to go....those top floors.
Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:37 PM (G0vdT)

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It's trickle-down air-conditioning!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (V362x)

56 >>85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.

85C means you're on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (viF8m)

57 I heard on Dallas talk radio this morning that in england the "climate police" were going around and ordering people to remove AC units from their houses or face arrest.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

58 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented? We only had ceiling fans in my elementary school in Louisiana and we only had an attic fan at home until we bought a window unit a year after we moved in.

I guess it's more brutal in a densely populated city in multi storied buildings. I do remember one summer in NY where I had no A/C . Box fan in the window was my only relief.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (04gcy)

59 You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:38 PM (N1tpc)

85C is 185 degrees F.
I don't think it was 185 degrees F in France.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (edUvp)

60 42 I like seeing all the memes that start with:

"I'm proud to be an American...where at least I have AC!".
Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (KKMoa)

And we don't make old people die
When the temp hits 113

Posted by: Green Death Cult at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (TbWk/)

61 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.

Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

62 from the rhetoric I've heard over and over from the left, they don't want to "encourage" the idea that we were "right about something".
Because then, you see, we'll get the idea that we're "right" about Nazism, and you got your next Third Reich situation.

They keep this up, in 15 years the survivors of the purge are going to put up statues to that fucking guy.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

63 "Airports have plenty of detectors for unknown signals and aircraft already. You might do better blasting the gates than trying to hit an aircraft in flight, even landing."

Well they don't seem to be working very well.

Maybe you should share this technology with the Russians.

Posted by: pawn at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (XGbvx)

64 Europe never really got rid of feudalism, did they? There's still a small, indolent elite busily employed making everyone below them miserable.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (CwhoI)
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And teaching them to internalize the virtues of being deprived.

... in a "socialism"

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (Fi81e)

65 >>We're actually supposed to hit 102 for a couple days at the end of the week. Not unheard of around here, but it's early in the summer for that.

It's a balmy 56 degrees out, today. Rain, too.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (/ytnd)

66 I saw a sign at work here that said re: preventing heat stress/exhaustion- 'minimize or eliminate caffienated beverages'. And thought back to the two cups of coffee I had drank this morning 'Ill risk it.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

67 "This is pure European neofeudalism: The EU commission wants to show that its doing its part to reduce "global warming" by turning off AC in part of the building.

Specifically, the eight lower floors where the plebes work.

The top seven floors where the elites work will have full AC:"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

/takes a breath in my air conditioned office

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

It's what you wanted Euro-trash. This is what you voted for. The "elite" were NEVER going to suffer with you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)

68 32
>It is not too far to go to say that AC changed America and opened up areas of the country to development and expansion. Not a luxury for many many of us but a necessity.

When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.
Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd

You are made of sterner stuff than I. Been to Tucson. Easy Bake Oven Town.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (pw8Ee)

69 It's trickle-down air-conditioning!
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (V362x)
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This guy get's it!

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (G0vdT)

70 When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.
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Swamp Cooler works fine in the desert.
Keeps it livable.

But in a swamp like Houston?
I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

71 It is humid and hot as fuck here though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (zZu0s)

72 Pallets and pallets of window shakers at Wal Mart

Posted by: hurricane567 at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (+ayKE)

73 And do these europeans not know how to watch youtube and create a temporary cooler for the hottest days.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (n5tGW)
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They're learning. I saw a video yesterday that was put up two weeks ago by a good ol' American showing how to use frozen water bottles attached to the back of a fan to cool a room. 99% of the comments were grateful Europeans.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (afFes)

74 Social Media is bombarded with ITS HOT SO AMERICA SUCKS AND WE HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES AND HAVE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT! Right now. And a host of misleading or fake pictures like melted traffic lights (the result of a scooter fire) and train tracks a mess (because the Danish used a soft meltable product for the base of the track, not the steel its self).

the A/C comments are the most hilarious though. They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

75 Of a piece with Germany decommissioning all its nuclear plants, right before the UKR war started.
Posted by: mnw at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (RCjYY)

They used to have France build them right on the border and sell them the power, because morality stops right there. Now, they are more honest but a lot dumber.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

76 Of a piece with Germany decommissioning all its nuclear plants, right before the UKR war started.

At least the Krauts have admitted that getting rid of their nukes was really, really, stupid. It takes a lot to get the Krauts to admit they were dumkopfs.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

77 61 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.
Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

Knock it off, Hudson.

Posted by: Sgt. Apone at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (TbWk/)

78 > When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Swamp coolers can work very well in dry climates, although they can spread dangerous mold spores and other things that grow on the cooling pad.

Unfortunately, a lot of low education poor people in humid places have swamp coolers. They don't seem to understand it's a terrible solution for their humid location.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (mkw2N)

79 > Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tells staffers to eat cake.

At least the shrew didn't offer all of the elites (and their families) with offices on floors 8-13 to resume their duties at Davos — on taxpayer's dime — until the temperatures subside.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (xE0sV)

80 >>> 57 I heard on Dallas talk radio this morning that in england the "climate police" were going around and ordering people to remove AC units from their houses or face arrest.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4FZ)

Wouldn't it be interesting if the A/C issue was what finally hmm, caused European citizens to insist on their rights.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (R+iUD)

81 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy

I understand about power outages. I don't understand a hospital deliberately choosing not to have air conditioning, and I am sorry about the people who died In Chicago.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Yl2Ob)

82 El Nino. It's a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (viF8m)

83 One should thinknif Global warming was a problem that air conditioning would be a priority. But Global warming is their main concern so stick it Europeans because your not paying enough to stop it and your paying the piper.you

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

84 >>You are made of sterner stuff than I. Been to Tucson. Easy Bake Oven Town.

Lived there for 6 years or so...never once had AC of any kind.

It's a dry heat.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (/ytnd)

85 Social Media is bombarded with ITS HOT SO AMERICA SUCKS AND WE HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES AND HAVE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT! Right now. And a host of misleading or fake pictures like melted traffic lights (the result of a scooter fire) and train tracks a mess (because the Danish used a soft meltable product for the base of the track, not the steel its self).

the A/C comments are the most hilarious though. They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

Europe's weather comes from Canada, not the USA. We are too far south even if it moved that far. USA's hot weather comes from the Gulf, at least in the midwest.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

86 82 El Nino. It's a real thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (viF8m)

It has a name

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (kgetQ)

87 Green politics is 50% graft and 50% neo-feudalism

Posted by: 18-1 at June 29, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)

88 86 82 El Nino. It's a real thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (viF8m)

It has a name
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (kgetQ)

It does? What's its name?

Posted by: Who's buried in Grant's tomb? at June 29, 2026 04:46 PM (TbWk/)

89 I heard on Dallas talk radio this morning that in england the "climate police" were going around and ordering people to remove AC units from their houses or face arrest.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (0N4F
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I suspect they would only arrest the pasty white violators.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:46 PM (afFes)

90 This week the head of the Ecologists party Marine Tondelier broke something of a taboo when she said that air-conditioning would be needed in schools and hospitals.

Which is long overdue. france has a surplus of electricity generation as they have a ton of nuclear plants. They have so much electricity they sell it to other EU countries and are the largest electricity exporter on the continent. It is stupid they have not embraced AC for at least their most vulnerable citizens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (0N4FZ)

91 > "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.

I've been to the interior of Florida in the middle of summer. It's absolutely miserable. The "dry heat" line is a cliche, but it's absolutely correct. Dry heat is far superior to humid heat.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

92 But in a swamp like Houston?
I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.

100 degrees. 100 percent humidity.
dead stillness. the only wind was the from the mosquito wings around our arms and faces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

93 When I lived in Tucson, there were almost no houses with AC Units. Just the trusty Swamp Cooler.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 04:39 PM (/ytnd)
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And a swamp cooler was a pretty good substitute.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

Listening to Adam Carolla rant about the swamp cooler he had to grow up with was pretty funny.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (04gcy)

94 You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.

If you wake up to 85K, it might feel a bit nippy.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

95 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented? We only had ceiling fans in my elementary school in Louisiana and we only had an attic fan at home until we bought a window unit a year after we moved in.
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that's where I'm at.
I lived in those days.
105+ days in the summer.
No AC.
School didn't have AC, just open the north windows.

Did we all stink horribly but none of us knew it 'cause we all stunk?
Were we just used to it?

I do know that one of the reasons smoking was so acceptable is it was very good at masking funk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (3cUTc)

96 >>> 70
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I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)

A few people did. There was a yuge population shift towards the south and west after A/C became available to regular shmoes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (R+iUD)

97 Full disclosure it is the humidity I hate. We keep the AC at 80 during the summer. No humidity in the house is great.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (sgO4s)

98 Euro governments are so worried about the energy grid's inadequacies being revealed that they are banning use of A/C and putting them into buildings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (UZCuZ)

99 the A/C comments are the most hilarious though. They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

You know, I wish they were right. Because I'd respond "You're welcome for WWII and the last 80 years of protecting your ungrateful asses. And, oh by the way, better get your kneepads and lip balm. You're going to need it."

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (KFbdf)

100 It's what you wanted Euro-trash. This is what you voted for. The "elite" were NEVER going to suffer with you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (N1tpc)
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The trick is to make them think suffering is virtue to be proud of.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e)

101 Well, if nothing else, I admire Europe's consistent dedication to stupidity and self-sacrifice. They actually believe what their selling.

It makes me wonder what else we could get them to swallow.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

102 You know, I wish they were right. Because I'd respond "You're welcome for WWII and the last 80 years of protecting your ungrateful asses. And, oh by the way, better get your kneepads and lip balm. You're going to need it."
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (KFbdf)

All that goat-flavored dick...

Posted by: Spotted! at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

103 There were posts noting heat rises hence the upper floors needing ac versus those super cool lower floors where the heat was escaping from. However, why was the 8th floor the point where the rising heat decided to do its dirty work? Why not the 4th? The 6th? Did someone run around with a temp gun and determine the point it became too much was the 8th floor and above?

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (hftzA)

104 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy

I understand about power outages. I don't understand a hospital deliberately choosing not to have air conditioning, and I am sorry about the people who died In Chicago.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2026 04:45 PM (Yl2Ob)

In the older days, a similar situation would have everyone sleeping outside, or opening up windows like in the movie "Rear Window". In Chicago too many elderly were too afraid of crime to leave home or open up windows and died.

The next year or so an almost identical situation happened and the city was proactive in getting elderly free transport to malls and airconditioned areas and very few deaths were attributed to the heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

105 We have the swamp cooler. But also not in a high humid area. But it will keep it chilly. My wife apparently likes living in a freezer so I have to put on clothes in the summer.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (n5tGW)

106 One of the guys at my golf course just put a HVAC system in his golf cart. Put solar panels on the roof to assist in lengthening the run time.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (04gcy)

107 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

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We survived. We weren't as comfortable. But we survived.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)

108 >>> 92
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I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.
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Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

Why?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (R+iUD)

109 85C is 185 degrees F.
I don't think it was 185 degrees F in France.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (edUvp)

I believe they were referring to the temperature inside the locked car with the windows rolled up. 185 seems a bit high but it can get a bit warm.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

110 Well, if nothing else, I admire Europe's consistent dedication to stupidity and self-sacrifice. They actually believe what their selling.

It makes me wonder what else we could get them to swallow.
Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

15 percent tariffs for them and 0 for us is a good start. The EU finally agreed to that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (uhVAy)

111 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (kgetQ)

112 I don’t have air conditioning in my apartment. It is uncomfortable when it’s over 80. 90 is right out.

We had a couple days in a row of over 100 in 2021. Everyone was still required to wear those silly stupid ineffective masks too.

So
Dumb

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (QBhXE)

113 What are the odds you need special badge privileges to access those upper floors of the building.

No sneaking upstairs to cool off prole.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (IYeV+)

114 06 One of the guys at my golf course just put a HVAC system in his golf cart. Put solar panels on the roof to assist in lengthening the run time.
Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (04gcy)

Good for him. Caddyshack worthy.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (sgO4s)

115 People on social media are posting maps of Europe showing the heat but they are coloring it hilariously. One I saw started at orange for 16-20 celsius which is like.. 50s. Red was normal room temperature, then it got scarier and scarier. Why? Just to mislead people and make it seem worse than it really is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (UZCuZ)

116 This makes me want to send a Euro a video of a chihuahua in a little back yard dog house with a great big AC unit plugged into it. He'll be laying there with his head hanging out the door, and the AC unit will be blowing on his ass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (edUvp)

117 I would recommend leaving NATO for this issue alone. A people who are too stupid for too arrogant to not adapt properly to their environment aren't worth defending.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (f6yx7)

118 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?

Well, except for mad dogs and Englishmen.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

119 Also why is AC an issue and not heat? That produces carbon, too probably more.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (hftzA)

120 You should probably note that is 85C, not 85F.

85F means I wake up sweaty. 85C means I don't wake up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at

Um no. 85c is 185f.

Posted by: Dandalo at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (3QsZU)

121 France gets 65-70% of its electricity from carbon-free nuclear power, so wtf is the "but muh climate" problem with having A/C? Are they just so anti-American that they won't adopt one of our best inventions?

Posted by: the dandy at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (8l8nW)

122 Let me remind you in this thread: Hollywood elites are cooling the outdoors down in Universal Studios theme park, where every ride exit is a gift store and Hollywood "hates Capitalism".

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (Fi81e)

123 22> Science lecture on heat convection

Likewise, cooler air sinks, to match the their excrement that gravitationaly flows.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (pawvM)

124 There were posts noting heat rises hence the upper floors needing ac versus those super cool lower floors where the heat was escaping from. However, why was the 8th floor the point where the rising heat decided to do its dirty work? Why not the 4th? The 6th? Did someone run around with a temp gun and determine the point it became too much was the 8th floor and above?
Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (hftzA)
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Cause that's were the Directors and executives work.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (G0vdT)

125 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.
Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

Comments like this come from people who've never set foot in Houston, or San Antonio, or Dallas, or Austin, or...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

126
In fourteen hundred ninety two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
and eventually, the New World had AC

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ZxPkt)

127 I'm surprised they aren't pimping the benefits of mass deaths towards reducing global warming.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (dvvVb)

128 It will interesting in a few weeks when thousands of Europeans leave the US after the WC and head home, many with a new found respect for the US.

Most people don't react well when they discover their government has been lying to them all their lives and their standard of living is a choice made by bureaucrats in Brussels.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (viF8m)

129 Peons don't need AC, let them use ice cubes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (B0dAE)

130 Also why is AC an issue and not heat? That produces carbon, too probably more.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (hftzA)
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Rice paddies produce more methane than cow farts.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

131 I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.

100 degrees. 100 percent humidity.
dead stillness. the only wind was the from the mosquito wings around our arms and faces.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

That's just down the road from Angola

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (04gcy)

132 I remember traveling through St Francisville, La (southern swamp region) about this time one summer.
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Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (edUvp)

Why?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (R+iUD)

One of those things that seemed like a good idea right up to that point.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (edUvp)

133 111 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (kgetQ)

You worked from first light to maybe noon and took a few hours off until the temp started dropping again (as late as 4-5pm).

There's also a reason sweet tea was invented. The liquid and ice refreshed you, but the sugar also helped restore/rebalance your body.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (KFbdf)

134 I saw the stats over the weekend that something like five times more euros die from winter cold than summer heat. It isn't just a summer thing. They don't have any type of HVAC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

135 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

You get more used to hot weather and adapt to it so its less awful. You stop doing stuff during the hottest part of the day (siesta!). You leave windows open all night when its cooler and shut them in the morning to try to keep it somewhat cooler inside. You sleep outdoors or on a breezeway porch when you can. You take trips to get out of town to the mountains or the beach for cooler air. You sprinkle the lawn and play in the sprinkler. You dress as cool as you can. You had fans all over to help move the air around so its a little cooler.

Like Axeman said, it sucked but you could make it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (UZCuZ)

136 Hot air rises...which makes no sense for that tyrantress to shut down AC for the first 7 floors.

I think this is the line that needed to be crossed for the revolutions to begin. Hundreds of thousands of World Cup fans, with their new love of the USA, will be returning to this insanity.

I can handle cold rooms but not hot rooms. I would die, too, without AC. The insanity of hospitals floors me. Schools without AC would lead to anarchy quickly.

UK demanding AC units be removed is just the start after being arrested for memes. I will be watching.

They found AC and freedom in the USA for our 250th Birthday. They found university football stadiums seating over 80k in air conditioning. They found free refills, Waffle House,Walmart and Bucees and ice in their drinks! The long hot days will exacerbate their homesickness for the USA.

This will not stand! Bangs sterling topped cane!

Slaps Starmer and gives him an iced coffee enema!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (hzuYO)

137 >>> 116 This makes me want to send a Euro a video of a chihuahua in a little back yard dog house with a great big AC unit plugged into it. He'll be laying there with his head hanging out the door, and the AC unit will be blowing on his ass.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:50 PM (edUvp)

This is a real thing (scroll down a little):
https://shorturl.at/RErB3

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (R+iUD)

138 91 > "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.

I've been to the interior of Florida in the middle of summer. It's absolutely miserable. The "dry heat" line is a cliche, but it's absolutely correct. Dry heat is far superior to humid heat.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

I really liked the climate at Huachuca for this very reason. All the heat, none of the humidity. Now I live in Houston. 9 months of swampass.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (VZZ3b)

139 There is a validity to only cooling the upper floors, if you keep the doors to the stairwell open.

Cold air falls.

Heat only "rises" because the colder, denser air falls.

But it's funny that it does seem to have an elitist feel to it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

140 90 in California is nice.

Fuck those assholes right to hell for ruining everything else about the state.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

141 How did people survive before air conditioning?

Men in 1776 at Independence Hall would wear a undershirt, a shirt, vest, overcoat, neck covering, oh and a hat to keep out the heat

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Ia/+0)

142 I will admit that I've gotten use to A/C and would not be happy without it .

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (04gcy)

143 I'm surprised they aren't pimping the benefits of mass deaths towards reducing global warming.

Some cynical types are suggesting that not having AC around kills off the elderly and sickly so they are less a burden on their "free" healthcare systems. And I think that they want people to be miserable and suffer in the heat so the global warmening thing is more believable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (UZCuZ)

144 I'm surprised they aren't pimping the benefits of mass deaths towards reducing global warming.

Posted by: Darth Randall

They are. I have video of Boris Johnson and others explaining in their own words that the reason for net zero policy is to reduce the world's population.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (0U5gm)

145
At least it's a dry heave.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)

146 They're screaming that Americans with air conditioning are WHY its so hot in Europe and the USA!!!!1!1!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:44 PM (UZCuZ)

The AC units are blowing hot air outside which forms a heat current and travels to Europe. It's science. -- Fauci

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

147 High heat and humidity - move sloooow, and learn the wisdom of manana.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (pw8Ee)

148 The "dry heat" line is a cliche, but it's absolutely correct. Dry heat is far superior to humid heat.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 29, 2026 04:47 PM (mkw2N)

Agree, sort of after growing up in the South and living in the West.

However, I learned that the Arizona heat is oven heat and prefer sweating vs it evaporating before you cope. I'd rather sweat than bake under the broiling sun.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (hzuYO)

149 This is a real thing (scroll down a little):
https://shorturl.at/RErB3
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 04:53 PM (R+iUD)

LOL! We should start up a charity for the poor Euros, offer to send them some of these for them to sleep in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (edUvp)

150 Europe is so beaten by the heat that they're willing to entertain embracing the unfashionable American preference for air-conditioning.

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There are a number of reasons why Euros don't have near as much or as good A/C. But whatever is going on, it's an Article of European Faith that any deficiency is America's Fault, and it's also not a deficiency because it is Better Than How Those Louts Do It.

This is like saying "Here are the people embracing the unfashionable American preference for not having malaria." This shit ain't a choice, Pierre. If you Euros had the wherewithal to catch up to 1970s America, you'd be sitting in your nicely chilled pied-a-terre, sipping wine and dick, and ruminating on how A/C was actually a French idea in the first place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (BI5O2)

151 There is a validity to only cooling the upper floors, if you keep the doors to the stairwell open.

Cold air falls.

Heat only "rises" because the colder, denser air falls.

But it's funny that it does seem to have an elitist feel to it.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e)
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Elitist: Close the damn doors!

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (G0vdT)

152 141 Actually I have no idea how they all didn't die of heat stroke

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (Ia/+0)

153 European governments discourage or outright ban AC because they don’t have the power generation capability to support it. The whole “we don’t use it because we don’t want to” is bullshit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (u73oe)

154 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

155 Europe never really got rid of feudalism, did they? There's still a small, indolent elite busily employed making everyone below them miserable.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 29, 2026 04:40 PM (CwhoI)

At least the elites in feudal times had to do some honest work -- hold courts, fight bandits, go to war to justify their position.

Socialist leaders have no such requirement.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (uhVAy)

156 111 How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?

They were smart enough to stay out of the heat ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 04:50

It is the reason for the siesta. That aside, many didn’t survive the heat and the AC was ultimately invented to address that need. Here in the historic homes turned museums, you can see all kinds of really cool house fan contraptions to bring a breeze through. It is also why old houses in the south have sleeping porches.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (hftzA)

157 Let the peasant suffer and die. Serve funereal cake to the survivors.

Posted by: little people at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (ehY6c)

158 saw the stats over the weekend that something like five times more euros die from winter cold than summer heat. It isn't just a summer thing. They don't have any type of HVAC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

That's interesting if accurate.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (04gcy)

159 If Europe starts using A/C it will definitely kill what is left of the Spotted Owl population in the Falklands !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (TghYn)

160 Peons don't need AC, let them use ice cubes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (B0dAE)
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Besides they will cool down as we pee on them. -- Euro Elites

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Fi81e)

161 154 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

"I agree, bae-by!" - says the 300+ lbs, blue haired "zir".

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (KKMoa)

162 We survived. We weren't as comfortable. But we survived.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)
_____________________

Eh, we're pretty adaptable. You spend just a marginal period of time in a place that is HOT, or the opposite COLD, and you adjust. It took me about 3 winters when I returned to the Mid-Atlantic states from northern New England to start wearing winter coats again.

The worst times are the transition..late spring to early summer. But after that people adjust and the Summer heat is an afterthought. Extreme events are an inconvenience, but rarely life threatening unless you do something stupid.

BTW, those of you without AC....get a window fan (one that slides into the sill slot. It does two things...improves air circulation, and will pull in cooler night air in the evening. Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.

Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (dIske)

163 I been to Nevada in August and 120 degrees, anything you touch including cement burns you.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

164 The most convincing argument I heard from brits for why they reject air conditioning is "because then we'd have nothing to complain about"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (UZCuZ)

165 “Let them eat cake, i mean heat…”

Posted by: Ursula von der Leyen at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (XodLO)

166 However, I learned that the Arizona heat is oven heat and prefer sweating vs it evaporating before you cope. I'd rather sweat than bake under the broiling sun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 04:55 PM (hzuYO)

When I was 18 and 19 I did contract construction work in the summer there. I would never feel myself sweat, but at the end of the day my arms and my clothes would be caked with dried salt. You had to really keep track of your electrolytes in that situation, or you're going to drop out and not know why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (edUvp)

167 Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 04:57 PM (hftzA

Shotgun houses.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (04gcy)

168 European women do not shave their armpits from what I heard.....

Imagin what it must smell like in a French Cafe recently !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (TghYn)

169 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

Togas were just for formal occasions. Men wore Tunics - no sleeves, above the knee. Very cooling. At one point Julius Caesar was scandalizing Rome by wearing long sleeves with some fringe.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (uhVAy)

170 The child climbed into the vehicle after his father told him to take a nap, but the car's child-lock system engaged, trapping him inside as outside temperatures climbed above 85 degrees.

This doesn't make sense. Dad told kid to take nap where? In the car? With windows rolled up? During a heat wave? Does not compute.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Hbeqj)

171 [Makes old school WWF Degeneration X "suck it" motion toward Europe]

Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (5aZAZ)

172 >>I been to Nevada in August and 120 degrees, anything you touch including cement burns you.

One year when I was in Tucson we had 120+ for almost a straight month.

It was nuts.

Still. Managed to get in a Mt Bike Ride and a pitch or two of climbing every one of those days.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (/ytnd)

173 I do like the attic fan. Open the windows and turn it on. You'll get a nice 10-15mph wind coming through the windows.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (04gcy)

174 101 It makes me wonder what else we could get them to swallow.
Posted by: Orson at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske)

102 All that goat-flavored dick...
Posted by: Spotted! at June 29, 2026 04:48 PM (TbWk/)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

175 The extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll.

French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

I take it that "Drowning Due to Swimming to Cool Down" is now a sport in France?

Why they don't they have the Minister for Climate Change on webcam from his air-conditioned office and ask him about the topic?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

176 Imagine Illan Omar sitting next to you in Paris today ....

Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (Ozvsj)

177 Togas do not sound so bad, do they?
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togas were more formal wear; everyday wear were tunics.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (3cUTc)

178 It is also why old houses in the south have sleeping porches.

I was just resting my eyes!

Posted by: wide awake porch at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (X+NGn)

179 111> Hasn't read "Cool How air conditioning changed everything" by Salvatore Basile

Sweating and stinking was such a virtue and status marker that when Willis Carrier's first "air conditioner" was formed specifically to act as a dehumidfier, it never occurred to anyone that mechanically cooled air could be something to desire.

In fact, ice vendors rallied against mechanical cooling because they saw it as a threat to their business model.

The Amish condemned even the fan because of Amos 4:13 "He [God]...who creates the wind..." meant that it was only God's domain to make a breeze.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (BvPIe)

180 My grandmother's house (where we had an apt for my first 10yrs) had 14' ceilings with transom windows in each room to catch breezes. Under the shade of giant oak trees it was not too bad. I guess there were fans as I don't remember.

My grandfather decided before I was born that I would never have to suffer without AC and installed a window unit in my nursery.

The only other time I was without AC was in college and as a newlywed in the Intermountain West with 100yr old houses. When I was hugely preggers with #1, my husband got a window unit for our bedroom that summer or he probably never would have slept at all.

I don't even care if AC is the cause of "climate change" and my fault! Take that, Greta, how dare you?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (hzuYO)

181 Europe, despite its rich history and beautiful architecture, antiquities and beautiful scenery has turned into an absolute hellscape in nearly every way possible.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (qBdHI)

182 Imagin what it must smell like in a French Cafe recently !!!!

Babylon Bee: Heat Wave So Intense The French Are Considering Wearing Deodorant

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (UZCuZ)

183 They mock our A/C but what they consider a heat wave is what much of the USA calls "summer."

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (2Drhq)

184 If you are losing 100K + to heat... are you First World Nations?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (mP0Kj)

185 saw the stats over the weekend that something like five times more euros die from winter cold than summer heat. It isn't just a summer thing. They don't have any type of HVAC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

That's interesting if accurate.

Posted by: polynikes

I looked it up - per The Lancet, globally it is 9 to 1 death from cold versus heat, but Europe only numbers won't be that bad.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (0U5gm)

186
Some mewling French functionary says the US bears significant blame for the heat wave.

So I wonder: how long does carbon dioxide remain in the atmosphere to cause heat waves that make mewling French functionaries mew? I've seen things that say that half is absorbed by the ocean or vegetation in 20-30 years. So, because our output is declining and lots of what we generated is no longer around, shouldn't he be blaming the heathen Chinee, who pump out more than three times as much?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (O0L8i)

187 Also Babylon Bee: "James Bond Granted License To Kill Anyone With An Air Conditioner"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (UZCuZ)

188 The extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll.

French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

I take it that "Drowning Due to Swimming to Cool Down" is now a sport in France?

Why they don't they have the Minister for Climate Change on webcam from his air-conditioned office and ask him about the topic?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

Note to Euros: Keep your Heads ABOVE the water line.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)

189 BTW, those of you without AC....get a window fan (one that slides into the sill slot. It does two things...improves air circulation, and will pull in cooler night air in the evening. Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.
Posted by: Orson at June

Fans cool people, not rooms. So use that ceiling fan, going in the right direction, when you are on the room during summer.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (hftzA)

190 A Turkish guy shot and killed six people in Germany. Religion of peace again

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (f6yx7)

191 I been to Nevada in August and 120 degrees, anything you touch including cement burns you.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM

I remember getting on the liberty boat in Mombasa Kenya New Years eve 1987. It took us 45 minutes to get from the carrier to the liberty landing on that converted one lung diesel cattle barge. I had a sunburn by the time we got there. It was 110 degrees and about 95% humidity. I don't think I dried out for the entire 5 day port visit in more ways than one.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (0N4FZ)

192 When I was 18 and 19 I did contract construction work in the summer there. I would never feel myself sweat, but at the end of the day my arms and my clothes would be caked with dried salt. You had to really keep track of your electrolytes in that situation, or you're going to drop out and not know why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 04:58 PM (edUvp)
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I hung insulation in the Colorado River tri-state area.

What you mainly feel is the gradual buildup of the oil, as I remember it. When you hang fiberglass insulation, you have to be covered head-to-toe, and often in housing structures without A/C.

Bullhead City, AZ could be the hottest spot on the map, and +20 degrees over Death Valley at times.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

193 182 Imagin what it must smell like in a French Cafe recently !!!!

Babylon Bee: Heat Wave So Intense The French Are Considering Wearing Deodorant
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (UZCuZ)

Maybe the stench will keep the Moslems from raping the French babes?

Oh... wait... they are probably really used to it... Burkas in heat gotta be smelly.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

194 Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.
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not where it's hot and humid.

Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (3cUTc)

195 > How did everyone survive before A/C was invented?
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one solution was, rooms had high ceilings, with transoms at the top for warm air to escape

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:03 PM (ZxPkt)

196 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

197 I will give credit where due for Europe: there are not a lot of bugs to fly in open windows without screens. Odd that I noticed this but I did.

I also cannot survive without screens on windows. And out West it isn't as bad as the farm. If you did not have screens you'd die from a bug bite disease before lack of AC.

I feel really sad for the fans of the World Cup going back to the UK and Europe from our beautiful air conditioned country. With AC in our big cars and trucks.

They can bite me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (hzuYO)

198 And I think that they want people to be miserable and suffer in the heat so the global warmening thing is more believable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 04:54 PM (UZCuZ)

Same thing with the "Unhoused". They want to keep the druggies and borderline-muggers roaming the parks so that idiots will vote for somebody to "do something". By spending on more services for the Unhoused.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

199 Another great idea is the nine foot ceiling. That, along with ceiling fans gets you halfway there, just need to get the humidity out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (0U5gm)

200 170> Doesn't understand Darwin by Proxy

The average IQ is 100.

Many rules are written in blood. Few people have real world experience of sitting in an oven hot car when outside temps exceed body temperature.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (BvPIe)

201 I built a graph I've been putting on Twixxer responses a lot: it shows the "Carbon emissions" by nation between the USA and Europe, India, and China.

The "emissions" are in that order. US is the lowest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (UZCuZ)

202 French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

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Just think of all the lives they saved by forgoing A/C.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

203 171 [Makes old school WWF Degeneration X "suck it" motion toward Europe]
Posted by: ballistic at June 29, 2026 05:00 PM (5aZAZ)

Crotch chops FTW!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (KFbdf)

204 So I wonder: how long does carbon dioxide remain in the atmosphere to cause heat waves that make mewling French functionaries mew? I've seen things that say that half is absorbed by the ocean or vegetation in 20-30 years. So, because our output is declining and lots of what we generated is no longer around, shouldn't he be blaming the heathen Chinee, who pump out more than three times as much?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (O0L8i)

Much faster than that - CO2 dissolves into the oceans and is consumed by plants. There's a reason its only 432 parts per million.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

205 Note to Euros: Keep your Heads ABOVE the water line.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)

You gotta wonder how many of those that drowned were migrants who didn't know how to swim but went for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

206 Meanwhile... SNOW warnings in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (mP0Kj)

207 I think this is the line that needed to be crossed for the revolutions to begin. Hundreds of thousands of World Cup fans, with their new love of the USA, will be returning to this insanity.

The EU does not require AC because, in 20 years, 90% of the population in the EU will be from hot countries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

208 Today in Vegas it will be 103F. 120F is bearable because of 5% Humidity and using your brains to not walk your dog at 3 PM..

You do most of your outside chores before Noon and then work inside until sunset. Main reason for suffering through hot summers is because......

Mild Winters and No Snow or Freezing Temps....

Rather sweat then freeze......

Posted by: Jackson K. at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (KmLJe)

209 Do they have any data centers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (Cqx++)

210 Also, use your ceiling fans in the winter, not the summer. Hot air rises...it just blows it down to you in the summer.. You use the ceiling fans in the winter.
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A lot of ceiling fans have a switch to push or pull the air.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (04gcy)

211 I saw two maps of the posted on X the other day. Each map had temperature readings posted on it from different locations around the UK.

One map was current and one was from something like 10 years ago. The temperatures were almost identical from the 2 different times all over the map but the graphics were a tad different. The older map just had the numbers with slight indicators of heat. The recent one was blood red all over.

European media is at least as bad as ours.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (viF8m)

212 I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

This is not an exaggeration.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (PLxDd)

213 Babylon Bee: Heat Wave So Intense The French Are Considering Wearing Deodorant

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:01 PM (UZCuZ)
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They surrender.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (Fi81e)

214 It is hot as balls here in Chicago.

Posted by: DaveA at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (FhXTo)

215
Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Same here. It makes a noticeable difference in all seasons.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

216 Piper, those 2-way window fans with one side blowing in fresh air and one side blowing out old air are really outstanding.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (2Drhq)

217 202 French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari posted on X that at least 55 people have drowned across France as residents sought relief from the soaring temperatures in rivers, lakes and other waterways.

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Just think of all the lives they saved by forgoing A/C.
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

Marina Ferrari... sounds like a French built Speed Boat?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

218 Do they have any data centers?

Lots but yeah the Chinese push to limit data center generation in the US is going nuts right now. Turns out its only hot because of data centers, they are the sole and exclusive cause of heat in the world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (UZCuZ)

219 But I've been to Independence Hall, The Room- it's not as big as you might think- and I'm sure being stuck in there with July heat and humidity, combined with the clothing styles of the day, must have been miserably hot.

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (ZxPkt)

220 hospitals without ice machines? really?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (VyBeY)

221 My A/C has developed a terrible rattle but I'm still using the hell out of it!

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (2Drhq)

222 >> You had to really keep track of your electrolytes in that situation, or you're going to drop out and not know why.

Drink Brawdo!

Posted by: the dandy at June 29, 2026 05:07 PM (8l8nW)

223 Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Same here. It makes a noticeable difference in all seasons.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

Definitely helps in the summer

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (kgetQ)

224 A friend of mine grew up in SC without AC. I have no idea how he lived though 3/4s the year of 90+ temperatures with complimentary humidity

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (wBaIH)

225 Do they have any data centers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 05:05 PM (Cqx++)
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You can't have my water!

I. DRINK. YOUR. WATER!

Posted by: AM at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)

226 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

https://www.etsy.com/market/reenactment_clothing_roman?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

227 Same thing with the "Unhoused". They want to keep the druggies and borderline-muggers roaming the parks so that idiots will vote for somebody to "do something". By spending on more services for the Unhoused.
Posted by: gKWVE

Yep. They enjoy terrorizing the public.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (EKbN/)

228 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

I am going to be very disappointed in you if you do not wear a gladius with your tunic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (PLxDd)

229 Watching the World Cup fans walking into giant covered stadiums which have AC is funny . They can't have AC in their houses or apartments and we air condition an 90000 seat stadium.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (f6yx7)

230 You can't have my water!

Little known fact: data centers consume water, its gone, destroyed when it enters the building. It doesn't flow through and enter the system, its not vapor, its just gone, poof! like magic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (UZCuZ)

231 The people in the lower seven floors of the EU Commission building should have shut down all business and gone home, leaving dear Ursula and her upper nobility in their nice air-conditioned offices.

Posted by: RebeccaH at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (VFung)

232 216 Piper, those 2-way window fans with one side blowing in fresh air and one side blowing out old air are really outstanding.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM

If we ever lose one of our units at the house, I will remember this. But please, don’t let that happen. lol. At least not both at the same time.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (hftzA)

233 A friend of mine grew up in SC without AC. I have no idea how he lived though 3/4s the year of 90+ temperatures with complimentary humidity
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (wBaIH)

South Ohio is 90/90 in the summer with no cooling ocean nearby.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (uhVAy)

234 True, we didn't have A/C in our apartment until I was about twelve. And there wasn't any in my classrooms until I got to college. Somehow we survived Sept.-Nov., and March-May, without cooling: windows open, fans I think in the upper windows in the cafeteria and gym, etc. The music rooms, the band and the vocal music classes, had air, but that was probably to keep the instruments from rotting in damp heat.

But I don't think we had anything like 104 F. in actual temps then. With heat index, sure, but not the base temp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

235 People in Europe freak out when it hits 90F.
It's at around 100F with this wave, and I'm sure that's with the humidity.

That's no different than here in where the temps were getting to 97 and a heat index of 100+.

That's why we have AC.

If they want to sweat it out and lose a few eggs for the Climate omelette to appease Gaia, then I say go for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

236 One thing I like about the small apartment we live in currently, is that the temperature is cooler than the outdoors in summer, and warmer in the winter. Last summer we turned on the AC twice or thrice, and for only a couple hours at a time. We get a lot of indirect sunlight, but not much direct.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (0aYVJ)

237 The European Left want heat deaths. This pads their stats about the evils of Global Warming which allows them to take more money and power.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (0MjtC)

238 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

Hey, those prices aren't bad! Maybe I'll throw in a subligaculum. Freeballing in a tunic might sound like a better idea than it actually is.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (2Drhq)

239 >>A friend of mine grew up in SC without AC. I have no idea how he lived though 3/4s the year of 90+ temperatures with complimentary humidity

My ex sister and brother in law retired to South Carolina. He doesn't even leave the house in the summer unless it's an emergency. Way too much humidity for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (viF8m)

240 Well, the main problem is that Europe simply does not have the infrastructure nor the transmission capacity to have widespread air conditioning.

At least the Japanese widely adopted Air Conditioning.

So they good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (XV/Pl)

241 We rarely get above ninty here with an occasional 100.. After a few days the fog comes in from the coast and cools it down again..

Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (kgetQ)

242 You can't have my water!

Little known fact: data centers consume water, its gone, destroyed when it enters the building. It doesn't flow through and enter the system, its not vapor, its just gone, poof! like magic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (UZCuZ)
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That's what they are telling me.

AM drinks all the water, and the rest of us, for the good that AI will provide, will have to get by with occasional drops.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

243 Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Same here. It makes a noticeable difference in all seasons.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

Definitely helps in the summer
Posted by: It's me donna at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (kgetQ)

I have little personal fans ready in places I sit for a while. Haven't even turned on the A/C to cool so far here in California.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (uhVAy)

244 People with A/C aren't as scared of Global Warming. The people must remain scared!

Posted by: 29Victor at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (0MjtC)

245 SE Pennsylvania puts Georgia to shame. It's heat is less humid, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 05:12 PM (NFX2v)

246 I bet the EU assholes in Brussels have A/C.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 29, 2026 05:12 PM (EKbN/)

247 @Polymarket
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43m
JUST IN: Public pool in Germany evacuated after dozens of French men allegedly jumped the fence, entered without paying, & clashed with staff.
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'French men'

riiiight

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:12 PM (ZxPkt)

248 Garrett,
It's 50 degrees here in Bozeman. My phone tells me the feels-like temperature is 34!

And the 3d straight day of rain, with another 3 predicted.

I'm not complaining. Do you think this takes care of our fire season?

Posted by: Wenda at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (AZWHC)

249 Those mini-splits are pretty cheap, and easy to install. They have the bonus of being "energy efficient" since they use "heat pump" technology (so Europeans can be happy they "killing the environment" a little more slowly).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (vbXSk)

250 The European Left want heat deaths. This pads their stats about the evils of Global Warming which allows them to take more money and power.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (0MjtC)

I love how the weather reports are all in fiery hellscape red when showing 80 degree F temperatures. Such fools they are there.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (uhVAy)

251 How will they reverse their decades-old determination to let the elderly die in heat waves?

As the BBC shows us: Simple! They'll now say that air conditioning is a sad but necessary response to global warming!

the fact that those pesky americans are forcing us to use air conditioning just illustrates the depth of the perfidity of orangemanbad!!

Posted by: yerp at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (sGtp+)

252 JUST IN: Public pool in Germany evacuated after dozens of French men allegedly jumped the fence, entered without paying, & clashed with staff.
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It was just the regulars avoiding the slick.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)

253 This is not an exaggeration.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:06 PM (PLxDd)
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I know. I was thinking specifically of the one in my sister-in-law's place in London. She hated it but could do nothing about it as it was a rental place.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (afFes)

254 Seriously... 50 years.

It's been 50 years since central air was de riguer in American new builds.

Joe Biden was a new Senator when America kicked back and cooled down.

The drip coffeemaker had just debuted on the market courtesy if Mr. Coffee, so it was around this time we passed them up on the coffee front, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

255 Maybe the Europeans can start putting ice in their water. As a suggestion.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM (hftzA)

256 What is the equivalent of 'Drive 100, Freeze a Yankee' ?

Posted by: MikeN at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM (4uWCj)

257 Another factor in Euro air conditioners is the cost for them. Europeans are on the whole poorer than the USA, plus their energy prices are outrageous. And, in some places (like England) they add a surcharge if you have air conditioning. So its hella expensive not only to buy one, but run one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM (UZCuZ)

258
The US has AC in 90% of its houses. It's 91% in Japan and 86% in Korea. Guess who gets all the blame?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (O0L8i)

259 My obituary in the UK would read:

"She died from blunt trauma trying to keep her AC window unit from being removed. Fought bravely with her narwhal spear and gravely wounded officials who required surgery to their nethers. They killed her before she dumped boiling oil on them, which was the plan. Said to tell you her violent death was totally worth it and she chose this as her hill to die on."

Also, Paris must really be a stink hellscape this summer. We rode a train in early June from Paris to Salzburg and two moose slimes were nearby. They don't wear deodorant, ever. Neither to many Europeans. Pee You!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

260 It's 50 degrees here in Bozeman. My phone tells me the feels-like temperature is 34!

And the 3d straight day of rain, with another 3 predicted.

I'm not complaining. Do you think this takes care of our fire season?

Posted by: Wenda at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM

On the morning news this AM we saw a winter storm warning up by you.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (0N4FZ)

261 Innovations like direct-to-chip and immersion liquid cooling can eliminate traditional water cooling altogether in favorable climates.

Many modern data centers now partner with local municipalities to use recycled, non-potable wastewater for their cooling operations instead of drawing from drinking water supplies.

Facilities in drought-prone areas are moving toward dry cooling towers and closed-loop systems to minimize evaporation, though this often comes with a trade-off of higher electricity usage.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (NFX2v)

262 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)

Hey, those prices aren't bad! Maybe I'll throw in a subligaculum. Freeballing in a tunic might sound like a better idea than it actually is.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:11 PM (2Drhq)

I have gotten a few things from Etsy with success, though not recently.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (uhVAy)

263 Eurpoe seems a primitive place. Needs civilizing.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (Gqar8)

264 South Ohio is 90/90 in the summer with no cooling ocean nearby.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:09 PM (uhVAy)

That cooling ocean only helps with some breezes occasionally.
Mostly what it offers is a hella lot of moisture from the Gulf Stream spreads out to the Appalachians and gets stuck here.

If you live right on the coast it's nicer.
Further inland it's moist and hot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

265 260 It's 50 degrees here in Bozeman. My phone tells me the feels-like temperature is 34!

And the 3d straight day of rain, with another 3 predicted.

I'm not complaining. Do you think this takes care of our fire season?

Posted by: Wenda at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM

***********
Jealous, I am. Send some of that south of you, please.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (hzuYO)

266 And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I have AC
And I won't forget the French who tried
To take that right from me
And I'd gladly sit down in my room
And enjoy that sweet cold air
'Cause there ain't no doubt
I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire

Posted by: cheshirecat at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (E4Afo)

267 Hunter is having a sale on Vagisil Odor Block Wash

Free shipping to Europe and order before midnight you get a free poster of "Big Mike" Benching 500 lbs.

Exclusive price of 100 EUROS per 8 Ounce tube...

Take it from me, Hunter knows that smell from personal experience from $2 Hookers in Burkina Faso when he went with me.

I just sniffed their hair and Hunter...... Well you know ....

Posted by: Blo Jiden at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (dm7SR)

268 Eurpoe seems a primitive place. Needs civilizsing.
Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (Gqar

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Fixed

Posted by: Brits at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Fi81e)

269 Also, Paris must really be a stink hellscape this summer. We rode a train in early June from Paris to Salzburg and two moose slimes were nearby. They don't wear deodorant, ever. Neither to many Europeans. Pee You!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

Confirmed. And the women in their head-to-toe slave costumes might be worse than the men.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (PLxDd)

270 Sorry, my ceiling fan is 24/7/365.

I need that air circulation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Yes. I can do without AC* as long as the air in the room is moving about. I have a small fan on my desk at work for just that purpose.

*unless it gets really hot. And I have the AC on in my vehicles pretty much all summer. Except for the short drive home. My office stays really cool and I'll drive with the windows down in order to thaw out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

271 Germany also doesn't have "air con" in hospitals, including in cardiac care units, where you'd think a hospital would want patients to be as stress-free as possible.

In fact, in Germany, they're telling family members of heart attack victims to bring in their own ice-packs for patients recovering from a coronary.

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I would not live in Germany if you paid me. What is even worse is that they, like the EU bosses in Brussels, are hypocrites. I was in Berlin in August 2024 and the hotel I stayed at was air conditioned. This tells me that they know tourists and visitors will not stand for un-airconditioned hotels but their schweinherds deserve no better.

Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (ZNpJk)

272 269 Also, Paris must really be a stink hellscape this summer. We rode a train in early June from Paris to Salzburg and two moose slimes were nearby. They don't wear deodorant, ever. Neither to many Europeans. Pee You!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (hzuYO)

Confirmed. And the women in their head-to-toe slave costumes might be worse than the men.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:17 PM (PLxDd)

Thus the livestock popularity.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (Gqar8)

273 Here is another gotcha the British Subjects have to deal with if they think they can escape the heat in their cars....

Vehicle Air Conditioning Fines:

While there is no fine for excessive home use, you can face a surcharge/fine for using air conditioning in a stationary car. Under UK emissions laws, leaving your car engine running while parked just to keep the AC on is considered unnecessary engine idling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl)

274 Another factor in Euro air conditioners is the cost for them. Europeans are on the whole poorer than the USA, plus their energy prices are outrageous. And, in some places (like England) they add a surcharge if you have air conditioning. So its hella expensive not only to buy one, but run one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:14 PM

And that makes zero sense in france as almost all of their electricity is from nuclear power. That is the cheapest form of electricity generation as the french recycle their spent fuel into more fuel for their reactors. It is EU government regulations and fees that jack up the cost there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0N4FZ)

275 Germany also doesn't have "air con" in hospitals, including in cardiac care units, where you'd think a hospital would want patients to be as stress-free as possible.
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Nah, it's cool.

Posted by: The Guide Stones at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e)

276 It's snowing in higher elevations of Wyoming now.
They're expecting 6 to 12 inches in places.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

277 Something light hearted to cheer up with:

NEW: Los Angeles man arrested after shooting naked people with a BB gun as they rode their bikes through downtown Los Angeles.

Hundreds of people were spotted riding without clothes for the World Naked Bike Ride.

LAPD says a man dressed in all black riding a scooter started shooting the cyclists with a BB gun.

https://tinyurl.com/2j9vc4x2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (UZCuZ)

278 How will I sleep tonight knowing that my use of AC is making things ever worse for people sweating in Paris? (Probably pretty well since my room will be nice and cool.)

Posted by: Dave at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (sbsMc)

279 But I don't think we had anything like 104 F. in actual temps then. With heat index, sure, but not the base temp.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

My Brother just turned 70 last weekend... Mom used to tell the story that on his birthday it was hottest day she could remember, at 114.

Funny, just went and tried to look at the historic online Temp records for my town... and from what I remember, they are not correct... not even close.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (mP0Kj)

280 254 Seriously... 50 years.

It's been 50 years since central air was de riguer in American new builds.

Joe Biden was a new Senator when America kicked back and cooled down.

The drip coffeemaker had just debuted on the market courtesy if Mr. Coffee, so it was around this time we passed them up on the coffee front, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

***********
My parents built their house in 1964 and had central AC.
Over 60yrs.

I doubt many in the UK or Europe can fathom central AC. How are you going to remove that, beetches? Turn off my power? Try harder.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (hzuYO)

281 The US has AC in 90% of its houses. It's 91% in Japan and 86% in Korea. Guess who gets all the blame?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:15 PM (O0L8i)
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Is that really true, that 90% of homes here have a/c? I would have guessed far fewer. In the New England town where my husband is from, no one we know has it. As a kid we lived in both Northern and Southern California and neither house had it. My brother and his family live outside L.A. and don't have it. My other brother lives outside Seattle and they don't have it.

Or does the 90% include room-size a/cs? Maybe that's it.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (afFes)

282 Everybody. Into the pyoo-ul.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (2Drhq)

283 People focus on the cool part of using AC for us old folks, but the other big benefit is pollen-free filtered air; a lot of us develop sinus and pollen allergies as we hit our 60's.
I used to be Mr Windows Open in nice weather, but now they stay closed all year just to keep the air dust and pollen free. Just another reason to thank the ancestors that yeeted themselves out of Ye Olde Country.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (Ft5W9)

284 I think the real reason the eurotrash are opposed to AC is their power grid won’t handle it. AC is a power hog eating big watts and big volts.

Yes, they have lotsa EV charging stations, but those are strategically located. That’s not the same as 10s of millions of europoean firing up AC wherever they may live.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (qLMMh)

285 That cooling ocean only helps with some breezes occasionally.
Mostly what it offers is a hella lot of moisture from the Gulf Stream spreads out to the Appalachians and gets stuck here.

If you live right on the coast it's nicer.
Further inland it's moist and hot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

Prevailing winds come from the inland in the US, so the Gulf stream is not hugely important in weather here. Now, it certainly keeps Europe from being Permafrost, seeing how it is so far North.

I'm sure you can have 'reverse flow' at times like Chicago with its Lake Effect snows.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)

286 I would not live in Germany if you paid me. What is even worse is that they, like the EU bosses in Brussels, are hypocrites. I was in Berlin in August 2024 and the hotel I stayed at was air conditioned. This tells me that they know tourists and visitors will not stand for un-airconditioned hotels but their schweinherds deserve no better.
Posted by: Decaf at June

But you had to have your key in the holder to turn it on (and the lights) so you couldn’t keep it comfortable while you were gone, though, right? I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hftzA)

287 191 - according to (if I remember correctly) MIL-STD 810, Earths most extreme temp/humidity conditions occur on the coast of the Red Sea; like you were describing, or a bit worse ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (VyBeY)

288 The 13-story building is home to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, her 26 commissioners and about 3,000 staff. Von der Leyen works on the 13th floor, and most of her commissioners' offices are housed on floors eight or above.

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Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor?

Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (ZNpJk)

289 LAPD says a man dressed in all black riding a scooter started shooting the cyclists with a BB gun.

https://tinyurl.com/2j9vc4x2
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (UZCuZ)

Good! A bazooka would be better! I find the nekkid bike rides totally disgusting and try not to think about it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hzuYO)

290 While there is no fine for excessive home use, you can face a surcharge/fine for using air conditioning in a stationary car.

Yeah people are literally doing that, rigging up a hose from the car through windows. I feel it.

'Cause there ain't no doubt
I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire

(salutes)
(eagle screams overhead)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (UZCuZ)

291 My office stays really cool and I'll drive with the windows down in order to thaw out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

Heh...early in my career I had a job that required a bunch of computers, so my office was kept very cold. I remember thinking that a three-piece suit is the way to go.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (PLxDd)

292
Late to the thread, but for heaven's sake, AC has been standard in businesses and schools in Asia for decades. Europeans might be amazed by a trip to South Korea.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (XJ22o)

293 Yeah, American hospitals are DOPE AF.

Most people don't like it cold enough to dry-cure meat. Especially my wife, who enjoys being roasted alive.

But hospitals? They understand me and my temperature needs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

294 UK emissions laws, leaving your car engine running while parked just to keep the AC on is considered unnecessary engine idling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl)

That's bad, but we're not far off.
The county I live in made it illegal to leave your car running in a parking lot (gas/retail) to prevent car theft.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

295 We're about 15 degrees cooler this year then most years...

High of 86 when normally it's past 100...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (mP0Kj)

296 I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire
Posted by: cheshirecat at June 29, 2026 05:16 PM (E4Afo)
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*applause*

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (afFes)

297
By the way, when a Turkish doctor is calling you out for primitive hospital practices, you've regressed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (XJ22o)

298 Wearing a Roman tunic for a whole day including out in public is on my bucket list. I need to hit a Tunics-R-Us.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:04 PM (2Drhq)

They have them on Amazon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

299 292
Late to the thread, but for heaven's sake, AC has been standard in businesses and schools in Asia for decades. Europeans might be amazed by a trip to South Korea.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (XJ22o)

Europistan is racing to third world status.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

300 I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hftzA)

Any card works.

F*ck them and their authoritarian tendencies.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (PLxDd)

301 You know that Fishy smell after a herd of Raghead Babes walk by...

It reminds me of those 100F days in Desert with the Goats.... That fragrant smell of Goats.....

Smells like........ "VICTORY".....

Posted by: Hussan the Goat Man at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (xl8DV)

302 Totally off topic, but I just figured out how Clint Eastwood's character in Unforgiven got sick. It was the pigs!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (diia5)

303 "At least it's a dry heat," said every Texan.
Posted by: 13times at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (6iKlf)

Comments like this come from people who've never set foot in Houston, or San Antonio, or Dallas, or Austin, or...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

No kidding! Houston is miserable this time of year. Actually, from about late April to almost the end of October, I barely go outside.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (k9OZB)

304 This is how you know what's a real issue.

People come from all over the world to go to Disney. People come from all over the world to go to Cedar Point and King's Island.

So, it seems that people would come from all over the world to visit Universal Studios park.

But the world bitches about us cooling our homes. A lot of foreigners have to have noticed that Universal is cooling the out of doors!! Who have you ever heard bitch about that? (Besides me, that is).

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Fi81e)

305
Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor?
Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (ZNpJk)

More floors between her and the bloodthirsty mobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (O0L8i)

306 Yeah, American hospitals are DOPE AF.

holy crap yes. I spent a week in one because of a horrendous throat infection that nearly killed me and I was stunned. It was like being in a resort staffed by cute girls and super nice doctors.

Except the surgeon that cut out the infection in my throat and cleaned it up. He was a total stereotype of the cold, arrogant, heartless surgeon. Dude had all the empathy of a Cylon.

But the place was incredible, the food was even good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (UZCuZ)

307 282 Everybody. Into the pyoo-ul.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:20 PM (2Drhq)

My pool is over 80 degrees... kinda like getting into a bath tub.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)

308 But I don't think we had anything like 104 F. in actual temps then. With heat index, sure, but not the base temp.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 29, 2026 05:10 PM (wzUl9)

My Brother just turned 70 last weekend... Mom used to tell the story that on his birthday it was hottest day she could remember, at 114.

Funny, just went and tried to look at the historic online Temp records for my town... and from what I remember, they are not correct... not even close.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2026 05:19 PM (mP0Kj)

Increased urbanization does make the area of the city warmer than the ambient country around it, but there were plenty of 100 degree days in the country before they started mucking with the measurements. That's what the 'heat waves' were. 90 degrees in August is just normal in flyover country.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

309 284> Doesn't understand European seasonal electrical loads

Western Europe uses 35% more electrical energy in the winter — primary drivers lighting, heating than it uses in the summer — primary drivers air conditioning.

Posted by: Community Notes at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (a6PrB)

310 We hold these truths to be self evident. That all Europeans are fucking retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (u73oe)

311
No kidding! Houston is miserable this time of year. Actually, from about late April to almost the end of October, I barely go outside.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (k9OZB)

Got in a little while ago from mowing the back acreage. Yes, I was on a riding mower but still it was two hours work. Yes, it was hot. Yes, I was happy to come back inside. But I could have stood it a lot longer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (O0L8i)

312 UK emissions laws, leaving your car engine running while parked just to keep the AC on is considered unnecessary engine idling.
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I think most European cars don't have remote start for the same reason.

Posted by: WisRich at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (G0vdT)

313 It's not just people that need the A/C. Lot's of other stuff needs to be kept cool, or cooler, or it ceases to function. Ah, the perils of the modern world...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (QaH55)

314 Actually is dry heat here in northern CO. Right now it's 85 degrees and 17% humidity. I guess that counts? Is there an official threshold for dry heat?

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (2Drhq)

315 Seriously, European health care facilities are starting to sound like those nasty clinics in Cuba where the average citizens (as opposed to party elites and medical tourists) go for what is dubiously called "treatment".

Posted by: Paco at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (2L+MU)

316
Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor?
Posted by: Decaf

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The first floor might be the Erdgeschoss and the other floors are 1-12.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (XJ22o)

317 Except the surgeon that cut out the infection in my throat and cleaned it up. He was a total stereotype of the cold, arrogant, heartless surgeon. Dude had all the empathy of a Cylon.

But the place was incredible, the food was even good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:24 PM (UZCuZ)

My broken arm surgery doctor was pretty chill. Threw in a free carpal tunnel procedure for nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (uhVAy)

318 "Who builds a 13 floor building and then installs the queen of Europe on the 13th floor? "

to ask the question is to answer it, innit?

minions of stan

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (VyBeY)

319 I am going to go teach a few classes. In my air conditioned studio.

Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (hftzA)

320 We hold these truths to be self evident. That all Europeans are fucking retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (u73oe)
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I petitioned for "whack", but it's too late at this point.

Posted by: James Madison at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)

321 Actually is dry heat here in northern CO. Right now it's 85 degrees and 17% humidity. I guess that counts? Is there an official threshold for dry heat?
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (2Drhq)

well 50 percent at least. 17 is surely dry.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy)

322 I'm sure you can have 'reverse flow' at times like Chicago with its Lake Effect snows.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)

It's warm, hot & wet from May to October here.
It only gets worse if we have a tropical storm or hurricane.

There's a large El Nino this year so they're predicting less North Atlantic and Gulf hurricanes, but also wetter weather, which we have been getting some rain lately.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

323 I would not live in Germany if you paid me. What is even worse is that they, like the EU bosses in Brussels, are hypocrites. I was in Berlin in August 2024 and the hotel I stayed at was air conditioned. This tells me that they know tourists and visitors will not stand for un-airconditioned hotels but their schweinherds deserve no better.
Posted by: Decaf at June

But you had to have your key in the holder to turn it on (and the lights) so you couldn’t keep it comfortable while you were gone, though, right? I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.
Posted by: Piper at June 29, 2026 05:21 PM (hftzA)
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Depends on the hotel. I’ve never had that problems, but I’ve booked any hotel or Airbnb anywhere that doesn’t have central air. And I never travel anywhere during the hot seasons.

I spent too much time traveling for business all around the deep south, and hot humid places like Japan, in the summer heat. I had no choice. I was paid to do it. But for personal travel? Nah.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (qLMMh)

324 In the days of my callow youth I remember sleeping in the summer in front of a box fan under just a sheet.

On the Gulf coast.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (2Ez/1)

325 But the world bitches about us cooling our homes. A lot of foreigners have to have noticed that Universal is cooling the out of doors!! Who have you ever heard bitch about that? (Besides me, that is).
Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Fi81e)

Just doing our part to fight Globull Warmering!

Posted by: Dot, the Warner Sister at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (mP0Kj)

326
to ask the question is to answer it, innit?

minions of stan
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (VyBeY)

"The Whore of Babylon", as mentioned in Revelation?

Posted by: Thrawn at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (KKMoa)

327 I hope they are washing their clothes more frequently with all this heat, in their teeny-tiny Barbie washers that take 3 hours to run a small load.
Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

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Saw that when I visited family in Germany some years ago and thought surely they could have got a bigger and faster washer for a family of six.

Posted by: Decaf at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (ZNpJk)

328 It's not just people that need the A/C. Lot's of other stuff needs to be kept cool, or cooler, or it ceases to function. Ah, the perils of the modern world...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (QaH55)
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Yes, computers.

Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e)

329 >> Is there an official threshold for dry heat?

If a swamp cooler would work nicely and make the air comfortable, that's an official "dry heat". :-)

Meanwhile, a wet heat here. Dew point hit 81F on my little weather station earlier today, right after a little shower.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

330 310, preach it! our forebears left for good reason!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (VyBeY)

331 When I have been to Colorado I turn to jerky. Dry damned place.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar8)

332 We hold these truths to be self evident. That all Europeans are fucking retarded.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM

"It is wrong...to be French."

- Al Bundy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (kgE5c)

333 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy)

Having less than one-half of one percent of your state's surface covered in water comes in handy sometimes.

That sounds like a stat that has to be made up, but it's true.

.4%.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (2Drhq)

334 No kidding! Houston is miserable this time of year. Actually, from about late April to almost the end of October, I barely go outside.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:23 PM (k9OZB)

Houston is coastal, like New Orleans. Inland Texas is dryer.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (uhVAy)

335 And I do love living in the South.

But... I didn't have A/C until I was 34. Because where I lived, it wasn't necessary.

On days like today, I walk from my meat locker of an office into the wall of stifling, superheated water outside, and think of my A/C, shake my fist at Mother Nature, and think "hahaha haha, take that, bitch."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (BI5O2)

336 I still want to know what the Scots wear under their kilts.

I realize this is not the point, Ace, but I did wonder this when they were in Miami with their bagpipes as they had to be sweaty. The kilts are wool.

And with that I shall go do some laundry and be productive for an hour. Things were not productive this past week and I have more I have to do.

I have a tragic life.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (hzuYO)

337 This is a timely post for me. My air conditioner is on the fritz and the HVAC guy can't come until tomorrow. It is 91 degrees outside and 78 degrees in my house, so, hell on earth.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (0Htd1)

338 Was in a hotel not long ago. Set the thermostat to 65 degrees when I went to bed and slept great.

'murrica

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (2Ez/1)

339 But you had to have your key in the holder to turn it on (and the lights) so you couldn’t keep it comfortable while you were gone, though, right? I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel in Europe without that. Older ones, maybe.

Posted by: Piper

I always put a business card in the slot. The slot is not magnetic, but just an optic sensor. Never had a problem with the AC turning off.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (0U5gm)

340 When I have been to Colorado I turn to jerky. Dry damned place.

Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar

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Posted by: Axeman at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (Fi81e)

341 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

I've used swamp coolers in CO, they work great.

Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (2Drhq)

342 Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:27 PM (uhVAy)

Having less than one-half of one percent of your state's surface covered in water comes in handy sometimes.

That sounds like a stat that has to be made up, but it's true.

.4%.
Posted by: Delurker at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (2Drhq)

Hard to make a lake when the state is a mile high and tilted on both side downward like a shingled roof.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (uhVAy)

343 wouldn't know exactly where in the lineup, Thrawn, but on that team for sure.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (VyBeY)

344 Got in a little while ago from mowing the back acreage. Yes, I was on a riding mower but still it was two hours work. Yes, it was hot. Yes, I was happy to come back inside. But I could have stood it a lot longer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:26 PM (O0L8i)

I'm just not cut out for hot weather. I'll take a cold day any day over the heat. I'm like the Snow Miser, but he's a better dresser.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (k9OZB)

345 I'm currently sitting outside, by choice! in 90 degrees with 53% humidity. If I'm sitting still, I'm perfectly comfortable. The AC inside was getting too cold for me. It'll feel good again after I sit out here for a while.

Unbelievable that hospitals and schools other public buildings don't have AC in Europe. Aren't they all nuclear powered anyway? Surely they could pump it up a little.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (zYpTz)

346 337 This is a timely post for me. My air conditioner is on the fritz and the HVAC guy can't come until tomorrow. It is 91 degrees outside and 78 degrees in my house, so, hell on earth.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2026 05:30 PM (0Htd1)

I am seriously sorry and recommend you lie quietly in the coolest room, nekkid with iced wash cloths and cold drinks of whatever you feel like drinking.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (hzuYO)

347
The US has more extreme temperatures and more extreme weather. We've developed machines and technology to cope with it. (Western) Europe is just a different place. More moderate in both. They've never seen the need to plan for extremes. They've sneered at us for doing so and now they're feeling the effects of not doing so.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (O0L8i)

348
American hospitals are DOPE AF.

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You'd want to rent a room in them. One hospital near me has a giant lounge with a picture gallery and giant leatherette couches specifically for crashing on. I was visiting someone post-op, and a music student from a local high school came in and played some flute pieces for her. It had a pullout couch in the room so a visitor could doze or even in some cases spend the night. The food was great. A dietician came in and planned her meals with her personally. A physical therapist came in and kindly walked her around the floor.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (XJ22o)

349 I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)
High ceilings, tall windows and doors.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

350 >>On the morning news this AM we saw a winter storm warning up by you.

It snowed in the Utah mountains.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)

351 When I have been to Colorado I turn to jerky. Dry damned place.
Posted by: tubal at June 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Gqar

I visited CO a time or two and drove across it once. If you blocked out the Rockies it was Northern Indiana.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)

352 you can rig up your own swamp cooler with a fan and a Styrofoam cooler with water in it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (UZCuZ)

353 Nood, y'all

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (hzuYO)

354 Increased urbanization does make the area of the city warmer than the ambient country around it, but there were plenty of 100 degree days in the country before they started mucking with the measurements. That's what the 'heat waves' were. 90 degrees in August is just normal in flyover country.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

Its the other way around. Internet says the peak temp ever for June in my town is THIS YEAR at 102.

I specifically can remember many times it was well above 110.

Oh, and as I said above, this year has a pretty mild summer so far...

So, what do I believe, what AI is telling me? or the memories of living here on and off for 67 years?

Interesting.

Posted by: Dot, the Warner Sister at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (mP0Kj)

355 I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)
High ceilings, tall windows and doors.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

linen clothes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)

356 Aren't they all nuclear powered anyway? Surely they could pump it up a little.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 29, 2026 05:31 PM (zYpTz)

France gets 70% of their power from nuclear.

They just don't want everybody to have it.
Because of the Climate Gods.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 29, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

357 linen clothes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:33 PM (uhVAy)
Mint Julips.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (LHPAg)

358 I still can't figure how folks settled the South without AC.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 29, 2026 04:43 PM (3cUTc)
High ceilings, tall windows and doors.
Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2026 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

They cooked in outbuildings and outside a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 29, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

359 @TheBritishIntel
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1h
🇬🇧 CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING

Yesterday the convent and the burial place of Saint Patrick himself in Downpatrick was reduced to ashes.

Posted by: Don Black at June 29, 2026 05:36 PM (ZxPkt)

360 CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING
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Then torch the mosques.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 29, 2026 05:36 PM (BI5O2)

361 NOOD

SCOTUS

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 29, 2026 05:38 PM (R+iUD)

362 >> Right now it's 85 degrees and 17% humidity.

Just ran the numbers on that with an online psychrometric calculator thingy. That comes out to dew point of 35F and a wet bulb temp of 58F.

Theoretically, the wet bulb is how low a swamp cooler could lower the temp. Of course, it can't reach that low efficiently (and you wouldn't want 100% air anyway). But that shows under those conditions a swamp cooler would work like a charm.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:39 PM (w6EFb)

363 I keep the floor Ac unit I bought in WA state after some very hot days. You vent them out the window. They work really well. The central works well at this house.

What we used to do, when we didn't have AC was take a drive in the car. The AC worked there and you could cool down with a short drive.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2026 05:41 PM (bkuEU)

364
Looking this up, a decent swamp cooler can get the output air temp down to about 85% of the dry bulb and wet-bulb difference.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 05:44 PM (w6EFb)

365 Ive got someone else's unopened ballot from earlier this month.
So im going to be able to open it, vote it, and mail it in and California has to count it.

Posted by: torabora at June 29, 2026 05:50 PM (4tOtz)

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